“Gemini 2.5 is the New SoTA” by Zvi

Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental is America's next top large language model.

That doesn’t mean it is the best model for everything. In particular, it's still Gemini, so it still is a proud member of the Fun Police, in terms of censorship and also just not being friendly or engaging, or willing to take a stand.

If you want a friend, or some flexibility and fun, or you want coding that isn’t especially tricky, then call Claude, now with web access.

If you want an image, call GPT-4o.

But if you mainly want reasoning, or raw intelligence? For now, you call Gemini.

The feedback is overwhelmingly positive. Many report Gemini 2.5 is the first LLM to solve some of their practical problems, including favorable comparisons to o1-pro. It's fast. It's not $200 a month. The benchmarks are exceptional.

(On other LLMs I’ve used in [...]

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Outline:

(01:22) Introducing Gemini 2.5 Pro

(03:45) Their Lips are Sealed

(07:25) On Your Marks

(12:06) The People Have Spoken

(26:03) Adjust Your Projections

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First published:
March 28th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LpN5Fq7bGZkmxzfMR/gemini-2-5-is-the-new-sota

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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